Deniz Birlikci
@denizbirlikci
vibe training Nova Act @amazon, formerly @carnegiemellon, scholar @neo. i run through walls and make things happen
What a joy it is to be part of the team that made Nova Act happen! 🧑💻
Meet Amazon Nova Act — an effortless way to build AI agents that can reliably use browsers 🧑💻 With our new model, compose robust steps into complex workflows; handle everything from bookings to QA testing. Getting started takes just 3 lines of code. See what Nova Act can do…
Today, we're announcing our $32M Series A at a $300M valuation led by Insight Partners. Delve is automating busywork for humanity, starting with compliance. Here's our story.
I'm beyond lucky to have been able to sit down with Jensen and ask him questions, all thanks to @Neo 💙 Students, midnight tonight is the deadline to apply for the Neo Scholars program. It's the best decision you'll make.
Thank you Jensen Huang for meeting with @Neo Scholars and founders. 💙 College students: apply to be a Neo Scholar by midnight tomorrow! neo.com/scholars.
We’re excited to introduce Chai-2, a major breakthrough in molecular design. Chai-2 enables zero-shot antibody discovery in a 24-well plate, exceeding previous SOTA by >100x. Thread👇
fun fact: i got my first internship through a cold email it was to Toto Wolff it was for @MercedesAMGF1 it remains the most surreal internship experience + I got to train cool AI models too big believer in passion + guts taking you anywhere :)
fun fact: dming someone & asking them for a job never landed anyone a job.
constantly surrounding myself with curious thinkers has positively shaped my life in the best ways i’ve met some of the most incredible people from rabbitholeathon - our next one’s in tenesse this fall, come join 💛
Announcing: Rabbitholeathon 6.0 We invite you to a weekend retreat dedicated to curiosity, exploration, and diving down rabbitholes with other ambitious thinkers. Oct 24-27, 2025
Silicon Valley loves to romanticize dropout founders - but too often, it’s a story crafted for short-term VC markups, not long-term success for young talent. At @neo, we take the opposite approach and measure success in decades. Each year, we identify the top 0.1% computer…
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Confidence and courage to bet on yourself. That's what Neo instills in you :) Students, this is THE BEST opportunity for you to meet the most cracked people your age, learn from the best founders, and build something incredible. Apply to Neo Scholars program, today.
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This is maybe the main line that I'm most curious about. Beyond environments, having a world model intuitively could lead to better training as well. The agent can now not only take an action, but *imagine* what the next observation could be.
Scaling Reinforcement Learning Environments, Reward Hacking, Agents, Scaling Data Infrastructure Bottlenecks and Changes Distillation Data is a Moat Recursive Self Improvement o4 and o5 RL Training China Accelerator Production semianalysis.com/2025/06/08/sca…
Google has now built this into Gemini Diffusion! It shows speedups, up to 1500tok/sec. We had covered this 2 months ago in our reading group and all of us were betting a large lab to follow suit. Can’t believe it’s here. Google has been cooking lately.
we run a weekly ai reading group in sf among friends 🧠 this week, we're writing up on ✨ diffusion LLMs ✨ which can be 10x faster in token generation curious how it works? @AryaGrayeli, @jzhou891, and I had a deep dive 👇🧵 mdbirlikci.notion.site/Inception-Labs…
it’s near 11:47pm, Josh and I are still working the wholesome thing is that he’s building a new workflow with Nova Act for his startup while i’m trying to do the research to improve the model behind it we go back and forth talking abt what works and what needs fixing
I'll be at the Nous Research hackathon today as a judge! If you're there and want to chat about RL environments for web agents, my DMs are open :)
Announcing the Nous RL Environments Hackathon in SF! Create with Atropos, Nous' RL environments framework, and claim your stake of a $50,000 prize pool. Partners - @xai @nvidia @nebiusai @SHACK15sf @akashnet_ @LambdaAPI @tensorstax and @runpod_io May 18th. Sign up below 👇👇